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Censorial   Listen
adjective
Censorial  adj.  
1.
Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
2.
Full of censure; censorious. "The censorial declamation of Juvenal."





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"Censorial" Quotes from Famous Books



... republicanism; for it is one thing to advocate republicanism or royalism: it is quite another to make a hero of Brutus or Ravaillac, or a heroine of Charlotte Corday. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. The very people who would have scouted the notion of prohibiting the performances of Julius Caesar at His Majesty's Theatre in London last year, might now entertain very seriously a proposal to exclude Indians from them, and to suppress the play completely in Calcutta and Dublin; ...
— The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet • George Bernard Shaw


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